Podcasts by Building the Oracle - with Jay Swanson

01.12: Season 1 Finale - What have we learned and where to next? from 2020-06-15T00:00

We made it to the end of Season 1 of Building the Oracle! And everything went exactly according to plan ... well, not quite.

In our final episode of Season 1, we look back on our...

01.11: The business of being a writer in 2020 with Jane Friedman from 2020-06-01T01:00

Jane Friedman is the author of The Business of Being a Writer, and one of the most trusted consultants and reporters in the publishing industry....

01.10: Cataloguing a universe with Archivos founder David Robison from 2020-05-15T00:00

What's the best way for an author to keep track of a sprawling and evolving fictional universe? And how can we take of all these wonderful little worldbuilding details to help readers explore an...

01.09: Worldbuilding with Mike Underwood, Adam Rakunas&Patrick Tomlinson from 2020-05-01T00:00

Worldbuilding! It's one of the defining elements of the science fiction and fantasy genres, in which the world itself, and how it differs from our own, is a central feature of t...

01.08: Kameron Hurley on perseverance and building a resilient creative career from 2020-04-15T00:00

Kameron Hurley is a Hugo Award-winning author and a trained historian. She was the guest of honor at this year's ConFusion, and she joined us on the pod to talk about the challenges of living a ...

01.07: Michelle Kuo and the power of reading and telling stories from 2020-04-01T00:00

Michelle Kuo is an immigration lawyer, and currently teaches on issues of race, punishment, immigration and the law, at the American University of Paris. She is also the author of Listen

01.06: Michael R. Underwood and the modern art of selling books from 2020-03-15T00:00

Mike Underwood is a rare jewel in the publishing world - a successful author of several (very excellent) SFF novels who also happens to have invaluable sales and marketing expertise with some of...

BONUS POD: How Rick Morton lost it all before hitting #1 from 2020-03-11T00:00

Rick Morton is the host of San Diego's highest rated breakfast morning show, Hey Morton!, on radio Listen

01.05: Community building with r/fantasy creator Steve Drew from 2020-03-01T00:00

r/fantasy is the internet's largest discussion forum for speculative fiction, and one of Reddit's most popular and inclusive communities. It has almost 800,000 members and has become the go-to l...

01.04: Kate Weber&Zach Egan on building the Swanson Team in Paris from 2020-02-15T00:00

Asking for help and building a support team can be one of the most difficult but important things for a creative entrepreneur to do as their business grows. Jay was as surprised as anyone to dis...

01.03: Lindsey Tramuta on Writing About a Changing Paris and Business When Living Abroad from 2020-01-30T21:15

Lindsey is a Paris-based journalist writing for the New York Times and Fortune amongst many others. But she’s best known in our circles as @LostnCheeseland, the name of her fantastic Instagram a...

BONUS POD: Should authors bother attending conventions? Live from ConFusion from 2020-01-25T01:10

Jay attended ConFusion, a Science Fiction & Fantasy convention in Detroit, Michigan. While he was there he talked to some of our favorite SFF authors about why they attend conventions like C...

01.02: Natasha Ngan on what it takes to write a bestseller&what it takes out of you from 2020-01-15T00:00

Natasha Ngan hit the New York Times bestseller list with her breakout YA novel, Girls of Paper and Fire. She joins us to talk about writing margina...

01.01: Building a Podcast with Oliver Gee and John Clarke from 2020-01-01T00:00

Oliver Gee and John Clarke join us to share their own experience with podcasting, and to give us some friendly advice to help launch "Building the Oracle".

You can find out more about both...

Introducing Building the Oracle with Jay Swanson - TRAILER from 2019-12-28T07:10

Dropping on the 1st and 15th of every month in 2020 - Building the Oracle follows the process of building a publishing house and film studio from the ground up, all based around the universe of ...